Psalms 14

1 TO THE OVERSEER. BY DAVID. A fool has said in his heart, “There is no God”; They have done corruptly, They have done abominable actions, There is not a doer of good.

Unto the end, a psalm for David. The fool hath said in his heart: There is no God, They are corrupt, and are become abominable in their ways: there is none that doth good, no not one.

2 YHWH has looked from the heavens on the sons of men, To see if there is a wise one—seeking God.

The Lord hath looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there be any that understand and seek God.

3 The whole have turned aside, Together they have been filthy: There is not a doer of good, not even one.

They are all gone aside, they are become unprofitable together: there is none that doth good, no not one. Their throat is an open sepulchre: with their tongues they acted deceitfully; the poison of asps is under their lips. Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; their feet are swift to shed blood. Destruction and unhappiness in their ways: and the way of peace they have not known: there is no fear of God before their eyes.

4 Have all working iniquity not known? Those consuming my people have eaten bread, They have not called YHWH.

Shall not all they know that work iniquity, who devour my people as they eat bread?

5 They have feared a fear there, For God [is] in the generation of the righteous.

They have not called upon the Lord: there have they trembled for fear, where there was no fear.

6 You cause the counsel of the poor to stink, Because YHWH [is] his refuge.

For the Lord is in the just generation: you have confounded the counsel of the poor man, but the Lord is his hope.

7 “Who gives the salvation of Israel from Zion?” When YHWH turns back [To] a captivity of His people, Jacob rejoices—Israel is glad!

Who shall give out of Sion the salvation of Israel? when the Lord shall have turned away the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice and Israel shall be glad.